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1884.129.19

Sharpening stone, thin suboval plate. [MJD 25/04/2013]

1884.129.19

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Collection type
Object
Description
Sharpening stone, thin suboval plate. [MJD 25/04/2013]
Long description
Sharpening stone, thin suboval plate. The stone is ground along the long edges. Half of the top surface is ground and scored. The stone is dark brown in colour. [MJD 25/04/2013]
Date / Period
Date made: Possibly before 1878
Date collected
?By 1878
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Stone, Process Ground
Dimensions
Thick: max 22 mm, Width: max 90 mm, Length: max 300 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.129.19 PR no.: 134/ 11935
Research and responses

Note that the green book entry has been made on the basis of geographic place and description of object. However if the object has the number has the number 11935 in reality one would expect this object to have been delivered to South Kensington Museum in early 1881 and not 1878. [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

See researchers file 'Milliken' for draft of A brief history of the stone tool collections from India in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford by Sarah Milliken from the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford. [ZM 22/08/2008]

Associated publications
JAI 1878: 462 'Tâlag-da Sharpening stone with this they sharpen all their iron implements Pl XII'

Search terms: Tool, Weapon, Whetstone

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